Sentences with phrase «zooplankton grew»

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The foundation's fieldwork has revealed an ever - growing synthetic sea where particles concentrate by season, trash commutes in the currents from far - off places, and plastic outweighs zooplankton, retarding ocean life.

Experiments with copepods showed that climate change can transform zooplankton into «fast food» of poor quality: The organisms that make up about 80 per cent of the zooplankton actually benefit if more phytoplankton grows because more carbon dioxide is dissolved in the water.

Instead of densely branched branching corals, robust mounding species of hard coral grow, offering the zooplankton little shelter.

When phytoplankton increase, zooplankton flourish, treating whales, sea birds and young Arctic cod to a bountiful feast.2 In addition to more food, the warmer surface temperatures stimulate the «cold - blooded» Arctic cod grow faster and bigger, and bigger fish are better able to survive the winter.

A growing number of studies have demonstrated adverse impacts on marine organisms, including decreases in rates of coral calcification, reduced ability of algae and zooplankton to maintain protective shells, and reduced survival of larval marine shellfish and fish [13], [14], [15].

Loladze first realized there was something odd going on in 1998, when a lab experiment found that using light to grow additional quantities of algae to feed zooplankton did not result in the zooplankton's growth.